on people and that is why i m with death penalty focus seeking to abolish the death penalty in this state. when we think about the inhumanity of the death penalty, we ignore the people we re asking to do this for us. i agree. we are ignoring the people that we ask to do this. and is it right to ask a public serve and to the kill out the killing of a human being? in my mind it is not. certainly i have been involved with capital punishment for over 30 years. i know it from all points of view. not only are we causing harm to the staff but i do not believe it brings any kind of remedy to the victim s families. it is a costly, infective process. the last word with lawrence o donnell airs weeknights at 8:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc, the place for politics. here s your first look at how wall street will kick off the day.
executioner. but someone does. someone somewhere in a kindergarten class in this country today is going to grow up to be an executioner. no one hopes that for any student in any american classroom today. no one wants that. we don t know who the actual executioner of troy davis was last night. that information is not released. that person lives with this knowledge, goes home with this knowledge, goes home to his or her children with this knowledge. what, what are we doing to those people? joining me now, jeannie woodford, the executive director of death penalty focus opposing capital punishment. she s a former warden at san quentin prison, where she oversaw four executions. thanks for joining me tonight. thanks for having me.
executioner. but someone does. someone somewhere in a kindergarten class in this country today is going to grow up to be an executioner. no one hopes that for any student in any american classroom today. no one wants that. we don t know who the actual executioner of troy davis was last night. that information is not released. that person lives with this knowledge, goes home with this knowledge, goes home to his or her children with this knowledge. what, what are we doing to those people? joining me now, jeannie woodford, the executive director of death penalty focus opposing capital punishment. she s a former warden at san quentin prison, where she oversaw four executions. thanks for joining me tonight. thanks for having me. tell us about this job.